More quotes by Alfred North Whitehead

"Art is the imposing of a pattern on experience, and our aesthetic enjoyment is recognition of the pattern."
"The ideas of Freud were popularized by people who only imperfectly understood them, who were incapable of the great effort required to grasp them in their relationship to larger truths, and who therefore assigned to them a prominence out of all proportion to their true importance."
"Philosophy begins in wonder. And at the end when philosophic thought has done its best the wonder remains."
"In the conditions of modern life the rule is absolute, the race which does not value trained intelligence is doomed."
"Art attracts us only by what it reveals of our most secret self."